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Context Readings

20
"Let me speak that I may get relief; Let me open my lips and answer.
21 "Let me now be partial to no one, Nor flatter any man.
22
"For I do not know how to flatter, Else my Maker would soon take me away.

'You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike You shall not fear man, for the judgment is God's The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.'

After Paul had been summoned, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying to the governor, "Since we have through you attained much peace, and since by your providence reforms are being carried out for this nation,